05:12 PM 9/10/2004 -0400, Ryuji Suzuki wrote: >From: DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: [pure-silver] Re: archives >Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:44:54 +0200 > >> This is a purely hypothetical discussion anyway. > >Not really. If this were an empty issue, then there would be lots of >pure-silver CD-ROM's openly distributed by now. Have you looked at these URLs? http://web.archive.org/web/20040119031313/http://www.tundraware.com/Archives /pure-silver.archive/pure-silver.200103.txt >http://web.archive.org/web/20030724205948/http://www.tundraware.com/Archive s/pure-silver.archive/ I am not aware of "The Wayback Machine" being sued, and it's archiving a heck of a lot more than the stuff linked above. I don't think this is >much different from the need for model release form, property release >form, prints delivery form to galleries, license of rights for stock >images, etc. Even when I shoot my friend for favor, I always ask for a >release and give them pretty much unlimited license for use of their >images right away. They may need this when they print their images >immediately or some time in the future. In my view, archiving a >mailing list is not much different. > >Copyright related issues and licensing are a part of daily life of >artists among others, so there are many resources online and in >books/newsletters/magazines. There are many canned license forms that >you can use with minimal editing for most routine work. Only in those >unusual circumstances you might want to draft something and have >lawyers review it, but those resources tell you what kinds of things >are important to include. > >I do typographic work, making posters, and other printing related >stuff for my projects from time to time. If I try to print a poster >with a decent printing company, they need to know in writing we have >proper licensing of rights with the original artists. This sort of >things are very common in many aspects of creative activities, and I >understand some of them are necessary mechanisms to protect original >work. > >But there are other negative aspects of copyright, which I should save >for some other time. > >-- >Ryuji Suzuki >"Keep a good head and always carry a light camera." >=========================================================================== ================================== >To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. > -- Website: http://www.clubvb.com/ ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.